"I'm not perfect," Mateo confessed, "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again, ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City - amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads - millions of dollars empower church missions, fa...
Patriarchy, Culture And Violence Against Women. Criminal Justice Responses To Honour Based Violence In The United Kingdom
by Sara Kathrada
Most of us have been victims of frauds and related crimes at some point or the other in our lives. We may not have answers to pertinent questions such as: Who is responsible for the fraud committed? Why do people commit white collar crimes? What makes us vulnerable to such crimes? Who could have prevented the crime? What could individuals and entities do to prevent the crime in future and what action should we take to recover the losses? Unlike street crimes where victims are clearly identified...
Thoughts on the Impolicy and Injustice of Capital Punishment, on the Rationale or Philosophy of Crime, and on the Best System of Penitentiary Discipline and Moral Reform: An Address to the Jefferson Literary Society of Augusta College, Delivered on the 25
by Charles Caldwell
Policing and Race in America
This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups' daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the Detroit, Los Angeles, and Atlanta Police Departments, immigration, incarceration, community policing, police violence, and detail causes, theories, and solutions to this important phenomenon.
This volume explores over 900 mass murders that took place in the U.S. between 1900-1999. Organized chronologically, it records mass murder rates within three distinct periods (1900-1939, 1940-1965, and 1966-1999) offering brief case studies of more than 100 mass murders chosen to reflect the dominant themes in such crimes for each period. In addition, cases are placed within a historical context by comparing trends in mass murder activity with previous research on homicide and serial murders. T...
Deterrence and Reformation: Reviewing the Law on Juvenile Delinquents
by Niharika Goel
Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1900, Vol. 28 (Classic Reprint)
by Asiatic Society of Japan
How Goes the War on Drugs?
by Jonathan P Caulkins, Peter Reuter, Martin Y. Iguchi, and James Chiesa
The Future of Batterer Programs (Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)
by Edward W. Gondolf
Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has prompted calls to overhaul or replace such programs. Edward W. Gondolf examines batterer research in light of the push for "evidence-based practice" and advocates a progressive evolution of batterer intervention as it currently stands. Cautioning against the call for programs based on a "new psychology," he argues that...
Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunately, the voice of the ghetto was politically tempered, silenced, ignored, and at times rebuked by a black leadership that seemed to be preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda. As a result, a once strong sense...